Unusual use of piano wire:
Piano wire eats moon dust.
On a recent documentary on four wheeled vehicles,
the moon rover used by apollo landings was covered.
They could not use pneumatic tires; they would explode.
They decided on piano wire woven into a fabric,
molding the mesh into wheels.
Dave Renaud
RPT
Canada
Brian Trout wrote:
> I've sold it to a number of different construction types.
>
> They claim that it can be made much straighter and tighter than a regular
> string line, and it's not so easily torn or cut by accident. They did
> remark that they like to mark it so that it's visible.
>
> I've also sold a bit to people who were installing windshields. (Don't ask
> me exactly how they use it, but they keep coming back.)
>
> And from time to time, someone will want some of the real fine steel wire
> for the cheese cutter at a local college.
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